From: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2013 19:53:29 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add new @ shortcut for HEAD
Message-ID: <CALkWK0kUOEygRE8uMJbW=fOV6iGPAap+mbS7mysTHT3Ri+9eGg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vhaindcuk.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano wrote:
> [...]
> You can't go any simpler than that rule, and there is no room for
> confusion if that rule is properly implemented.

In other words: the sequence "@" is short for "HEAD".  Isn't that
_exactly_ what I implemented in my two-liner?

However, I'm tilting towards respecting .git/@ as a manual override.
Why?  Because we'd have to either claim that git symbolic-ref @ HEAD
is a noop, or deny it altogether (by saying that @ is not a valid
symbolic ref).  The latter approach obviously sounds more sensible,
but I don't like unnecessarily eating up @.